16. Of _love_, by which is understood the joy man taketh in the fruition of any _present_ good, hath been already spoken of in the first section, chapter VII. under which is contained the _love_ men bear to one _another_, or pleasure they take in one another’s company; and by which nature, men are said to be sociable. But there is another kind of love, which the Greeks call Ἔρως, and is that which we mean, when we say that a man is in love: forasmuch as this passion cannot be without diversity of sex, it cannot be denied but that it _participateth_ of that indefinite _love_ mentioned in the former section. But there is a great difference betwixt the desire of a man _indefinite_, and the same desire _limited ad hunc_; and this is that _love_ which is the great theme of poets: but notwithstanding their praises, it must be defined by the word _need_: for it is a conception a man hath of his need of _that one person_ desired. The cause of this passion is _not_ always _nor_ for the most part _beauty_, or other quality in the beloved, unless there be withal _hope_ in the person that loveth: which may be gathered from this, that in great difference of persons, the _greater_ have often fallen in love with the _meaner_; but not contrary. And from hence it is, that for the most part they have much better fortune in love, whose hopes are built upon something _in_ _their person_, than those that trust to their _expressions_ and _service_; and they that _care less_, than they that _care more_: which not perceiving, many men cast away their services, as one arrow after another, till, in the end, together with their hopes, they lose their wits. [Sidenote: Charity.]